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To make a Marmolet of Apricots: A Recipe from the Flyleaves
Many of the books in the Jesuit Antiquarian book collection contain re-used paper or other material, usually as part of the binding or as...

Lucy Vinten
Sep 6, 20213 min read


Celebrating the Ignatian Year
This year, 20 May marks the 500th anniversary of the injury that Ignatius of Loyola received at Pamplona, sparking his conversion.

Mary Allen
May 23, 20214 min read


Fr Leo O'Hea SJ
This year marks the 45th anniversary of the death of Father Leo O'Hea SJ (1881–1976).

Mary Allen
May 9, 20214 min read


Gerard Strickland & Chaplains in the Crimean War
This year, 26 April marks the 165th anniversary of the death of Fr Gerard Strickland SJ, a Jesuit army chaplain, during the Crimean War....

Mary Allen
Apr 25, 20213 min read


When an object becomes sacred
In 2018, shortly before the final closure of Heythrop College, some very special items arrived at the British Jesuit Archives.

Mary Allen
Apr 11, 20212 min read


Reflections on creating our Relic Exhibition
On 1 March 2021 the virtual relic exhibition, How bleedeth burning love, launched. This was a very exciting, and by then long...

Rebecca Somerset
Mar 28, 20216 min read
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